Feb 21 2024 | 00:52:22
Federal MP Andrew Leigh is a former professor of economics who is fascinated by how economics can create magic
Conversations
Spend an hour in someone else's life. Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met.
Feb 20 2024 | 00:52:29
How Jeanne Ryckmans fell for a dashing Irish Professor who was far from what he appeared to be
Feb 19 2024 | 00:53:10
Historian Alison Bashford with the story of the Huxley family, who founded one of the great dynasties of the world
Feb 16 2024 | 00:01:19
Dominic Riley on how a chance encounter with a bookbinding monk named Brother Bede changed the course of his life (R)
Feb 15 2024 | 00:48:33
Australia's storyteller in song on the poems he's loved since childhood, and how reading and learning great poetry has changed his songwriting (R)
Feb 14 2024 | 00:51:02
Artist David Rankin on his turbulent early life as a the son of a bootmaker, his unexpected path into painting, and his passionate love story with writer Lily Brett (R)
Feb 13 2024 | 00:52:22
Sophie Matterson spent five years preparing to cross the Australian continent with five camels she caught and trained herself (R)
Feb 12 2024 | 00:51:24
Nick Clemann is one of Australia's leading lizard experts, but took an unconventional path into research. After working for years as a tradie, Nick plucked up the nerve to go to university, walking into what he thought was territory reserved for the intellectual elite
Feb 09 2024 | 00:52:54
Victoria Vanstone was just 13 years old when she had her first drink, and the booze quickly consumed her. It wasn't until she was in her 30s that Vic realised she needed to do something radical
Feb 08 2024 | 00:53:07
Sue Lowry originally trained as an opera singer, but while living in London she fell in love with teaching children with special needs
Feb 07 2024
The actor on the late love of his life, his wife Joan Washington, and the final message she left him (R)
Feb 06 2024 | 00:47:30
Dr Kira Westaway has been on a ten-year mission to solve the mystery of how, why and when a giant ape called Gigantopithecus Blacki became extinct, and why nothing remains of this beast but thousands and thousands of teeth
Feb 05 2024 | 00:52:16
Nazeem Hussain honed his comedy in Melbourne's suburbs in the 1990s. After his father left the family, his fearless mother taught Nazeem how to use humour to get bullies off his back
Feb 02 2024 | 00:52:25
Mark Balla was on a business trip to India when he met two young men on a train. They invited him back to see their home, one of the world's biggest slums. This meeting changed the course of Mark's life
Feb 01 2024 | 00:51:23
Dr Ameliah Scott pilots herself around remote NSW to take care of animals and have a cuppa with their owners.
Jan 31 2024 | 00:48:09
For years, Adele Dumont had been secretly pulling out her hair from the root so obsessively she created a bald spot at the crown of her head. Eventually, she learnt her compulsion had a name
Jan 30 2024 | 00:47:03
After feeling burnt out, Jackie Carpenter spontaneously applied for NASA's Space Camp. She was the first Australian accepted, and it was the most transformative experience of her life
Jan 29 2024 | 00:48:19
Julia Baird has been sustained through hard times by acts of "moral beauty". In a world marked by division, these gestures have the power to restore our shared humanity
Jan 26 2024 | 00:53:04
Dr Robert Waldinger on what it takes to live a happy life
Jan 25 2024 | 00:52:13
The hardship, cruelty and loneliness of the mission system during the Great Depression didn't crush Aunty Ruth Hegarty's spirit. She found her voice, God and her family
Jan 24 2024 | 00:50:30
After a life of controversy, crime and corruption, disgraced former police detective Roger Rogerson died last week, aged 83. Peter Hoysted met with Rogerson on several occasions
Jan 23 2024 | 00:52:07
Louise Pryke is one of few people in the world who can read the ancient language in which The Epic of Gilgamesh is written. The mammoth, wild tale is still being deciphered from thousands of clay tablets
Jan 22 2024 | 00:50:01
Dr Liz Allen is a demographer fascinated by Australia's demographic trends. But her own story is a remarkable case study in deviating from the norm
Jan 19 2024 | 00:50:01
Nancy Withers has been breeding and training kelpies for 50 years, but one dog stands out from the rest, and he changed her life forever
Jan 18 2024 | 00:51:09
These are just some of the remarkable and quirky people who helped write the Oxford English Dictionary
Jan 17 2024 | 00:51:31
At 19 years old Jane Perlez visited China in the middle of the Cultural Revolution. She would return there as a journalist decades later to cover the biggest story of the 21st century
Jan 16 2024 | 00:49:35
In 1927 Francis Birtles set off on a grand adventure from London to Melbourne, through murderous mountain ranges and blustering blizzards, in a Bean motorcar
Jan 15 2024 | 00:53:09
International Chess Master and champion Irina Berezina credits her incredible chess-trained mind with helping her survive multiple international disasters
Dec 24 2023 | 00:52:18
Costa is the friendly face of Gardening Australia, a devotee of composting, keeping chickens and developing insect hotels (R).
Dec 08 2023 | 00:50:06
Dean Laws was in his 50s when doctors told him he had Parkinson's disease. For a time, he was devastated. Then he formed a running crew with his friends called 'The Dean Team', and made a plan to run the Sydney Marathon